Score-card.



C. MBCKLEM. SGORE GARD.

n.22, 1903. RENBWBD JAN. a, 1912.

Patented M3115, 1912.

APPiIoATIoN FILED A oa o ooo arrangement of parts which will be hereinis a view showing the book with the cover 'UNTE STATES ragni-tr ormon-l LIVE MECKLEM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BRENTANOS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y

'A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SCORE-CARD.

Application filed April 22, 1903, Serial No. 153,753.'

Specification of Letters Patent.

, Patented Mar. 5,1912. Renewed January 5, 19H2. Serial No. I669,717.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVE MECKLEM, residing at New York, in the county? of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Score-Cards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Thil invention relates to` a score card book, espec' designed for use in scoring bridge, out obviously adapted as to certain features thereof for use in a variety of games.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and after more fully described and the novel features thereof pointed out 1n the clalm.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l thrown back.' Fig. 2 is a View showing the cover and the first sheet thrown back and showing a loose-leaf carbon in position on the second sheet. Fig. 3 showsa similar view with the carbon removed. Fig. 4 shows a modified form ofbook.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring firstto Figs. l, 2 and 3, the book comprises suitable front and back covers l and 2, the front cover having its inner face, as shown, being provided with rules, indications or instructions Yrelating to the game-in the present instance, that of bridge-or to whatever game the book is intended to accompany. Such rules upon the cover, while not essential, are preferably associated with the other features of the invention and are a convenient and desirable part thereof. The upper page of each sheet, as shown on Figs. 1 and 2, is ruled or marked off in any desired way so as to present an outline convenient for the arrangement of a game score. The preferred manner of ruling, however, is substantially that shown, having separate columns for the recording of the scores of two or more contesting parties, each subdivided for the record of points acquired in a plurality of ways, as, for example, those gained in the ordinary course of the game and those resultingfrom the holding of honors. The first page of the book, as page 3, and alternate pages thereafter, are provided with illustrations, as shown at the upper end of page 3v at 5, which may be comic illustrations referring to some feature-of the game, or which may be of any desired character, instructive or otherwise. The illustrated sheets are preferably perforated both above and below the illustrations, as on lines 6, 7, so that a sheet with the illustration may be removed or the score may be removed, leaving the illustration in the book. .If desired, all the pages of the book may be provided with illust rations. I prefer, however, a book as shown, wherein the alternate pages beginning with thetop are provided with illustrations and serve as originals, While the intermediatel sheets 4t are simply ruled and serve as duplicates on which the impression from the original maybe preserved, as by means of a loose leaf or other carbon 8 inserted therebetween.

In 'Fig'. 4 is illustrated a modification wherein the book is made up of sheets-in f its upper end and vforms an original, ,thev

carbon, as 8, -being slipped between the original and duplicate where it is desired to retain a. duplicate impression. In this modification each original sheet would be provided with a picture at its upper end, as shown, and there would be a line of perforations at the fold 9 so that the originals with their illustrations could be removed, leaving the duplicates or carbon copies in the book. If desired, each sheet could also be perforated on a line directly below the illustration, as shown at 10.

It will be seen thatv I have provided a score book which has a cover upon 'which are conveniently arranged instructions re- .need of elaboration.

Having described my invention, what I.

plete, bound record. Further advantages ofthe invention will be obvious without -Y tall sheets connected together atl one end to orm said book, each-sheet consisting of an original and a duplicate leaf connected and folded together at their outer ends along a score line whereby said leaves may be readily severed from one another, said original rleaf terminating short of said duplicate leaf and having a transverse score line to permit said leaf to be severed therealong and thereby divided into a relatively short and a relatively long portion, the former being provided with an illustration characteristic of a term of a game, and the latter portion being divided intoV a series of columns provided with legends qualifying the use of the columns whereby scorings may be properly entered.

In testimony whereof I aiX my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

OLIVE MECKLEM., Witnesses: v

H. M. SEAMANS, J. B. KNOX. 

